Starlady and Fast-Friend
- Starlady (1976)
- Fast-Friend (1976)
For many of us, the Ace
Double Novels of the '50s and '60s have long been a source both of
pleasure and nostalgia. This new double volume from Subterranean Press
stands squarely in that distinguished tradition, offering a pair of
colorful, fast-paced novelettes from one of the most popular writers
currently working in any genre: George R. R. Martin. Starlady takes place on a planet called Thisrock and depicts
a Darwinian society populated by thieves, whores, cutthroats, pimps,
and assorted lost souls. It is a tale of love, loss, vengeance, and
ambition written with great economy of means, and with a narrative
intensity that never, ever lets up. Fast-Friend takes a fresh new look at an enduring human
dream: travel to the stars. With consummate narrative skill, and with a
visionary's sensibility, Martin tells an unforgettable story of longing
and transcendence, a story suffused with images at once beautiful and
terrifying, mysterious and profound.
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin (born 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey), is an American author and screenwriter of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. He majored from Norhwestern University in 1970.
Martin sold his first science fiction story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on various television series and feature films. In the mid ‘90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he’s allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.